25-32 Flashcards
on the origin of species published
1859
morill act provides public land for higher education
1862
world’s 1st subway system opens in london
1863
am society for prevention of cruelty to animals (aspca) created
1866
wyoming territory grants women right to vote
1869
woodhull and clafin’s weekly published
1871
metaphysical club meets in cambridge, ma
1872
comstock law
1873
woman’s christian temperance union (wctu) organized
1874
chautauqua education movement launched
1874
impressionist artists debut in paris
1874
john hopkins university graduate school est
1876
henry george publishes progress and poverty
1879
dumbbell tenement introduced
1879
mary baker eddy est christian science
1879
salvation army begins work in am
1879
booker t washington becomes head of tuskegee institute
1881
am red cross founded
1881
barnum and bailey first join to state “greatest show on earth”
1881
1st immigration restriction laws passed
1882
brooklyn bridge completed
1883
metropolitan opera house built in ny
1883
mark twain publishes the adventures of huck finn
1884
louis sullivan builds 1st skyscraper in chicago
1885
linotype invented
1885
statue of liberty erected in ny harbor
1886
am protective association (apa) formed
1887
hatch act supplements morrill act
1887
edward bellamy publishes looking backward
1888
jane adams founds hull house in chicago
1889
national am women suffrage association (nawsa) formed
1890
basketball invented
1891
lillian wald opens henry street settlement in ny
1893
anti-saloon league formed
1893
world’s columbian exposition held in chicago
1893
new zealand grants women right to vote
1893
library of congress opens
1897
charlotte perkins gilman published women and economics
1898
kate choplin publishes the awakening
1899
theodore dresier publishes sister carrie
1900
henry adams privately publishes the education of henry adams
1907
naacp founded
1910
new indian peoples move onto great plains
ca 1700-1800
pikes peak gold rush
1858
nevada comstock lode discovered
1859
homestead act
1862
sand creek massacre
1864
nevada admitted to union
1864
national grange organized
1867
battle of the little bighorn
1876
colorado admitted to union
1876
nez perce war
1877
helen hunt jackson publishes a century of dishonor
1881
fed gov outlaws indian sun dance
1884
canadian pacific railway, 1st transcontinental rail line, completed across canada
1885
local chapters of farmers’ alliance formed
1885-1890
dawes severality act
1887
oklahoma opened to us citizen settlement
1889
nd, sd, montana, washington, idaho, wyoming admitted to union
1889-1890
census bureau declares frontier line ended
1890
emergence of people’s party (populists)
1890
battle of wounded knee
1891
construction of trans siberian railroad begins
1891
frederick jackson turner publishes “the significance of the frontier in am history”
1893
coxey’s army marches on washington
1894
pullman strike
1894
utah admitted to union
1896
dingley tariff act
1897
gold standard act
1900
oklahoma admitted to union
1907
indians granted us citizenship
1924
indian reorganization act
1934
ne missionaries arrive in haiwii
1820
samoa crisis with gern
1889
pan am conference
1889
the influence of sea power upon history published
1890
new orleans crisis with italy
1891
valparaiso crisis with chile
1892
pribilof islands dispute with canada
1893
white planter revolt in hawaii
1893
cleveland refuses hawaii annexation
1893
cubans revolt against spain
1895
venezuela boundary crisis with brit
1895-1896
maine explosion in havana harbor
1898
span am war
1898
teller amendment
1898
dewey’s victory at manila bay
1898
hawaii annexed
1898
senate ratifies treaty acquiring philippines
1899
aguinaldo launches rebellion against us in philippines
1899
first am open door note
1899
hawaii receives full territorial status
1900
foraker act for puerto rico
1900
boxer rebellion and us military expedition to china
1900
2nd open door note
1900
supreme court insular cases
1901
platt amendment
1901
mckinley assassinated
1901
filipino rebellion supressed
1901
hay-pauncefote treaty with brit gives us exclusive right to build panama canal
1901
us troops leave cuba
1902
columbian senate rejects us proposal for canal across panama
1902
panamanian revolution against columbia
1903
hay bunau varilla treaty
1903
roosevelt collary
1904
construction of panama canal
1904-1914
us takes over dominican republic customs service
1905
roosevelt mediates russo japanese peace treaty
1905
san fran japanese education crisis
1906
roosevelt arranges algecircas conference
1906
us marines occupy cuba
1906-1909
great white fleet makes world voyage
1907
gentlemen’s agreement with japan
1907-1908
root-takahira agreement
1908
puerto ricans granted us citizenship
1917
sierra club founded
1892
national consumers league founded
1899
commission system est in galveston tx
1901
robert la follette elected gov of wisconsin
1901
am socialist party founded
1901
lincoln steffens and ida tarbell publish muckraking exposes
1902
anthracite coal strike
1902
newlands act
1902
department of commerce and labor est
1903
elkins act
1903
women’s trade union formed
1903
northern securities case
1904
lochner vs ny
1905
hepburn act
1906
the jungle published
1906
meat inspection act
1906
pure food and drug act
1906
“roosevelt panic”
1907
muller vs oregon
1908
aldrich-vreeland act
1908
payne-aldrich tariff
1909
ballinger-pinchot affair
1910
washington state grants woman suffrage
1910
triangle shirtwaist company fire
1911
standard oil antitrust case
1911
us steel corporation anti trust suit
1911
ca grants woman suffrage
1911
az, kansas, and oregon greant woman suffrage
1912
children’s bureau est in department of labor
1912
17th amendment passed
1913
fed reserve act
1913
san fran decides to build hetch hetchy reservoir
1913
women’s bureau est in department of labor
1920
underwood tariff act
1913
16th amendment
1913
fed reserve act
1913
huerta takes power in mex
1913
clayton anti trust act
1914
fed trade commission est
1914
us seizes port of veracruz, mex
1914
wwi begins in europe
1914
la follette seaman’s act
1915
lusitania torpedoes and sunk by germ uboat
1915
us marines sent to haiti
1915
germ declares submarine war area around brit isles
1915
sussex ultimatum and pledge
1916
us exports to euro belligerents skyrocket
1916
workingmen’s compensation act
1916
fed farm loan act
1916
warehouse act
1916
adamson act
1916
pancho villa raids nm
1916
brandeis appointed to supreme court
1916
jones act
1916
us marines sent to dominican repub
1916
us buys virgin islands from denmark
1916
council of national defense est
1915
germ resumes unrestricted submarine warfare
1917
zimmerman note
1917
railroads placed under fed control
1917
us enters wwi
1917
espionage act
1917
wilson calls for “peace without victory”
1917
bolshevik revolution
1917
wilson proposes 14 points
1918
battle of chateau thierry
1918
2nd battle of the marne
1918
meuse-argonne offensive
1918
armistice ends wwi
1918-1919
worldwide influenza pandemic
1918-1919
paris peace conference and treaty of versailles
1919
wilson’s pro league tour and collapse
1919
18th amendment passed
1919
1st senate defeat of versailles treaty
1919
final senate defeat of versailles treaty after reconsideration
1920
19th amendment
1920
wright bros fly 1st airplane
1903
1st story sequence motion pic
1903
henry ford introduces model t
1908
volstead act
1919
seattle general strike
1919
winesburg, ohio published
1919
red scare
1919-1920
radio broadcasting begins
1920
this side of paradise published
1920
main street published
1920
sacco-vanzetti trial
1921
emergency quotta act
1921
bureau of the budget created
1921
babbitt published
1922
the waste land published
1922
equal rights amendment (era) proposed
1923
immigration act
1924
scopes trial
1925
florida real estate boom
1925
the great gatsby published
1925
an am tragedy published
1925
the weary blues published
1926
the sun also rises published
1926
lindbergh flies solo across atlantic
1927
the jazz singer
1927
sacco and venzetti executed
1927
the sound and the fury published
1929
a farewell to arms published
1929
al capone imprisoned
1932
am legion founded
1919
chicago race riot
1919
esch cummins transportation act
1920
merchant marine act
1920
veterans bureau created
1921
capper volstead act
1921
five power naval treaty signed
1922
4 power and 9 power treaties on far east
1922
fordney mccumber tariff law
1922
adkins vs children’s hospital
1923
teapot dome scandal
1923
adjusted compensation act
1924
dawes plan
1924
us troops leave dominican repub
1924
us troops occupy nicaragua
1926
kellogg briand pact
1928
hoover makes goodwill tour of latin am
1928
agricultural marketing act sets up fed farm board
1929
stock market crash
1929
hawley smoot tariff
1930
japanses invade manchuria
1931
reconstruction finance corporation (rfc) est
1932
norris la guardia anti junction act
1932
bonus army dispersed from washington dc
1932